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Example sentences for: pendulum

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Doctors used to dictate treatment, but in the past decade the pendulum has swung too far toward patient autonomy.
For the next several years the pendulum of power in Spain swung back and forth between Left and Right.
The analog process in a mechanical watch is the motion of the pendulum or balance wheel and, in quartz watches, the electrical wave produced by a crystal oscillator.
The rest of the top 10 are: glass lenses, the orchestra, the clock pendulum, electrification, the birth control pill, refrigeration, anesthesia, indoor plumbing, and antibiotics.
As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.